Former Indiana basketball coach turned ESPN analyst Bob Knight doesn't like NBA rules that have brought about what's known as college basketball's one-and-done players.

Knight also tends to be outspoken.

In an interview Tuesday on ESPN Radio's "Mike and Mike Show," Knight's said "It's as though (the NBA has) raped college basketball" in regard to letting players in the league one year removed from high school.

Knight's take quickly went national, appearing on The Sporting News and CBS Sports, among other news outlets.

"If I were involved with the NBA I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid, to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA," he told Mike and Mike, according to The Sporting News' Chris Littman. "I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid. On top of it all, the NBA does a tremendous, gigantic disservice to college basketball. It's as though they've raped college basketball in my opinion.

"Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA."

Knight didn't receive a follow-up question, according to The Sporting News.

Apparently the irony was lost on hosts Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic. It was in 1998 that Knight told NBC's Connie Chung how he handles stress.

"I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it," Knight said.

Knight, who resigned from coaching a Texas Tech in 2008, served ESPN in a reduced role this season, commentating the SEC's Thursday night game for the network. That included a trip to old rival University of Kentucky's Rupp Arena in February for the Wildcats' game against Arkansas.

As with Knight, UK coach John Calipari has said he would like to see players required to stay in college two seasons before entering the NBA draft. But Knight wouldn't call the Wildcats by name when commentating a 2012 game on ESPN, instead calling them "that team from the SEC."

"Kentucky managed to get irritated over that because I mentioned them as the SEC team rather than Kentucky," Knight told the Indianapolis Star that year. "Well, they might not have known that Kentucky was in the SEC. I thought that was always a possibility with them."

Knight also apologized to UK and Calipari in 2011 after he claimed the Wildcats' one-and-done players didn't attend spring classes.

"My overall point is that 'one-and-dones' are not healthy for college basketball," he said then in a statement. "I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize."

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